Superbly illustrated book.

Military History Matters, August 2019

This is a pictorial history of the development of the US Navy's aircraft carriers - from a converted collier in 1922 to the nuclear powered 'Super-Carriers' of today - from carrying bi-planes to unmanned stealth jets. It focuses on the deployment of carriers during the Second World War and cover their development before and since...

... It is a comprehensive and concise illustrated history, supported by straightforward text and detailed photograph captions. It is more an appetizer than the main course. Yet this is a competent little book, and if one had to choose but a single volume on the topic of US carriers then this would have a strong claim.

The Mariner's Mirror

This is a well captioned book, providing some fascinating visual insights into the evolution of the world's most powerful navy.

Warships Internation Feb 2016

Aircraft Carriers of the Unites States Navy and United States Naval Aviation 1911-2014, go hand in glove and might have made one big book, but we can have no complaints if they are treated as a pair or not. Both are designed to work well individually and it shows.

Regulars will know by now what a sucker I am for archive naval imagery. There is plenty on offer here with a good look at US aircraft carrier development from the period of experimentation through to the classic era of World War II. The book continues into the jet age where the ships of the propeller era were adapted to operate jets before dedicated vessels came on strength.

The general histories and captions and the choice of images has been made with great care. I would definitely like to see the two form the basis of an expanded and larger format book, but I fully appreciate them as they are and have no hesitation in recommending the pair.

War History Online - Mark Barnes

I already own several of these “Images of War” books and what is nice about the series as a whole is the format; slightly smaller than A4, aromatic paper, and easily digestible information in bite-sized chunks.

This book – as the name implies – concerns aircraft carriers. It details in four chapters the development of these ships throughout the previous and current centuries; pre-WW II, during, post-WW II, and into the age of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Each chapter begins with a short explanation of the developments of that era followed by annotated photographs...

... Throughout his book, Michael Green explains how these vessels were built and developed, and provides technical specifications where necessary. The amount of detail is spot on – not too little, not too much. The book contains several hundred photographs – most black and white. This seems only natural as much of the history of the carrier dates back to the time of black and white photograph. Personally, I find the most striking pictures those of the Japanese kamikaze attacks during WW II. The development of these ships into the modern era and the crucial role they play in the political relations is impressive.

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Mercator Chapter Belgium

This book contains superb images of all the different types of classes of carriers employed by the US Navy since 1922. These and its highly informative text and captions give the reader a broad overview of this fascinating subject.

Warship World